What I Wish My Managers Knew About Me
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I wish managers took the time to really get to know me and other employees. This is a reflection as an employee and as a manager. People have relationships that go unleveraged. It is often easier to use relationships to help develop better connections across a business and make working together much easier. Another issue is that managers often don't get a full view of your skills. They hired you to do one job however they fail to realize the wide range of skills employees have and how to leverage them to create better solutions. This has been a big frustration with data science. People who jump up and down and all excited publicly about new topics like data science often get assigned to do the work while your most qualified employees typically aren't extroverts at least in technical fields. It is your responsibility as a manager to get to know people at a deeper level.
Other personal skills and characteristics are often missed. Management skills are judged based on your personal view of what management is. Managing at a bank is much different than managing at a small firm and especially in a blue collar environment. Age seems to be the biggest hurdle I face. It is really hard for people to grasp my experience due to my age. Realistically most people have not had 8 years of work experience in another industry as an expert by the age of 24. To top it all off, I started a whole separate career in quantitative finance. The ability to start over and jump fields has been a really big challenge and this multidimension perspective could really help companies manage a variety of relationships and projects.
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